Opportunities for (PhD) Students in Geosciences

Applications are now open for the Student for Student Summer School (S4SSS) on “Soil as a Key Factor in Mountain Hazards” taking place at Obergurgl, near Innsbruck.

Details: https://imc2025.info/summerschool/s4sss25/focus-group/soil-as-key-factor-in-mountain-hazards/
Travel Grants: https://imc2025.info/summerschool/travel-grants/
Abstract Submission: https://imc2025.info/summerschool/submission/abstract/

Deadline for abstracts: 20.02.2025

Summer School dates: 07.09.2025 – 12.09.2025
Location: Obergurgl, Austria

Looking froward to the discussions and contributions! 
(Alaq, Maria, Mehdi and Mona)

Event Details:

• Title: Frontiers in Computational Geomechanics for Coupled Multi-Physical Processes  
• Event: 11th GACM Colloquium on Computational Mechanics  
• Date: September 21–24, 2025
  
• Location: Braunschweig, Germany  
• Website:
  • Mini-Symposium MS15: https://colloquia.gacm.de/organisation/minisymposium/ms15
  • GACM: https://colloquia.gacm.de/organisation/hola

This session will highlight the latest advancements in computational geomechanics, with a focus on multi-physical couplings such as thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical (THMC) processes. Key topics include:

•  Constitutive modeling of complex visco-elasto-plastic material behavior  
• Fracture propagation and damage evolution in geomaterials, including advanced regularization techniques such as gradient-based and nonlocal approaches (e.g., phase-field methods)  
• Applications in geothermal energy, CO2 sequestration, oil and gas recovery, and nuclear waste disposal  

For further details, see attached flyer.

Call for Abstracts! Session on Monitoring and Modeling of Landslides (FS 3.147) at the International Mountain Conference IMC2025 in Innsbruck!

We are looking forward to your enriching contributions to our session on landslides. Please find further details on: https://imc2025.info/imc25/sessions-n-workshops/focus-session/fs-3-147-monitoring-assessment-and-multi-scale-modeling-of-landslides-approaches-for-hazard-analysis/

Abstract submission: https://imc2025.info/imc/submission/abstract/

Deadline for abstracts: 20.02.2025

Conference date: 14.09.2025 – 18.09.2025
Location: Innsbruck, Austria

See you there for an exciting exchange,
Barbara Schneider-Muntau, Christina Rechberger, Christine Fey (Chairs)

Dear All,

as a Coordinator of LARAM School I am pleased to share this announcement with ALERT Geomaterials community. Looking forward to meeting you in Hong Kong, in June 2025.

Best regards,

Sabatino Cuomo

LARAM Course 2025

2 – 7 June 2025, The University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China

1-WEEK SPECIAL COURSE FOR POST GRADUATE STUDENTS, EARLY CAREER ACADEMICS AND PROFESSIONALS

The LARAM international training course in Hong Kong (China) is an initiative jointly conceived by the University of Salerno (UNISA), the University of Hong Kong (HKU), Geotechnical Engineering Office (GEO) of the HKSAR Government, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

The aim the initiative is to develop and conduct a training course dealing with landslide risk management, to be delivered by renowned landslide experts of international reputation.

Detailed information at: https://www.laram.unisa.it/school/2025hk/2025hk and attached the file

within the framework of LARAM School “LAndslide Risk Assessment and Mitigation” (www.laram.unisa.it) – “a long-term dissemination action”